topic Accessing the cmis:changeToken in Alfresco Archive

Accessing the cmis:changeToken

juicybananas — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 16:22:13 GMT

From what I have gathered from the OpenCmis spec this is how one would go about getting the 'changeToken' for a Document. List<CmisExtensionElement> extensions = object.getProperties().getExtensions(); PropertyData<?> propData = object.getProperties().getProperties().get("cmis:

Re: Accessing the cmis:changeToken

fmui — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 13:49:39 GMT

Hi juicybananas,

The change token is a single string and repository specific. You shouldn't use it except for the calls that take a change token. It's actually not used in Alfresco. The last modification date should be sufficient for your use case.
Btw. You seem to use the OpenCMIS low level API. Any reasons for that? The high level API is much simpler to use.

Florian

Re: Accessing the cmis:changeToken

juicybananas — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 14:31:56 GMT

Thanks for the response! I guess I'm using it for performance.

Re: Accessing the cmis:changeToken

fmui — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 14:41:16 GMT

There is no performance difference between the APIs. In fact, if you use the high level API cache it can be faster.
The low level API gives you more control, but you write four times more code to use it.